I am surfing the web from the comfort of my couch, shamelessly using somebody else’s wireless connection because my own isn’t working. Guess I’ll have to figure that out…
On Sunday I picked up a wireless router and managed to get it set up through my desktop, you know, in preparation for my new laptop, dum dum dummmmm. I’m almost amazed I managed to get it set up at all after the experience I had in the store.
For the first time I can remember, I felt completely baffled by technology. I stood in the aisle staring at row after row of wireless routers, without any true idea of what I needed. “Wireless!” “Wireless with SpeedBooster!” “Wireless with SRX!” Linksys. Netgear. A bunch of other brands.
So: what to get? I’m a fairly computer saavy person, I should know this, right?
I looked around for a 13-year-old. Someone who would understand all the wireless mumbo-jumbo. Instead, all I found the sales guy, who tried to sell me the most expensive router of the section I was perusing. Sigh.
I settled on the middle ground and left feeling like technology has truly started to pass me by. But…but…but…I was the girl who Leila accosted freshman year because I was the first one on the hall that had her email set up!
Wireless. I’m on the internet and there are no wires. Crazy.
Anonymous says
geez…must be getting old sis wireless is fun because i can sit on my sofa downstairs and surf. i just plugged my router in and it worked though. too bad my laptop battery doesn’t work anymore
laanba says
I used to have to choose between my two vices, internet and cable television. With wireless I am comfortably ensconced on my sofa facing the TV. Heaven! I love wireless.
Jen says
Totally! I don’t know how I managed when I had to get off my butt and go upstairs to get on my computer. Now I can surf anywhere! On the sofa – check. In bed – check. In the bathroom – uh, maybe we shouldn’t go there…